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RHEL 5.6 & PHP 5.3

This morning I upgraded the server to RHEL 5.6 which was just recently released. This included a number of updates to various packages, but the main two that were updated were PHP and BIND. The packages for PHP 5.3 and BIND 9.7 are named php53 and bind97 so that users could choose whether or not to upgrade or continue using the old version. In order to upgrade I had to run yum remove php-cli and php-common and then install php53-cli and php53-common and then re-install all PHP 5.3 add-ons. Afterwards I had to rebuilt and re-installed PHP eAccelerator 0.9.6.1.

I am looking to upgraded to BIND 9.7 this coming weekend, but wanted to install them separately in case any issues arose on the production web server. RHEL 6 was also recently released and I will be looking to upgrade the server and migrate all hosted sites over soon, just waiting for ISPConfig to confirm compatibility.